print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1847,0306.25-55
- Description
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Incomplete set of 31 playing-cards depicting various mathematical and scientific instruments, including a title-card (the king of clubs); the cards are illustrated with instruments, or trades and sciences relevant to instruments, with description below; in the top right hand corner a miniature playing card indicates suit and value; plain backs. Lacking the ace, 8, 9, 10, knave, queen and king of hearts; the 3, 4, 6, and queen of diamonds; the 2, 5, 6, 9, and 10 of spades; and the 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9 of clubs. 1700
The cards are titled as follows:
Hearts:
2: 'Croß-staffe'
3: 'Plows & Bows'
4: 'Sea Quadrant'
5: 'Coue'
6: 'Miner'
7: 'Bow'
Spades:
Ace: 'Bookes & Instrum.ts for Navigation'
3: 'Tryangular Quadrant'
4: 'Quadrant'
7: 'Magnet or Loadstone'
8: 'Gardner'
Knave: 'Leavell'
Queen: 'Astronomical Quadrant'
King: 'Spheres'
Diamonds:
Ace: 'Mathematical Instruments'
2: 'Imperial and Plain Table'
5: 'Architect'
7: 'Shipwright'
8: 'the Compaß'
9: 'Dyals'
10: 'Bricklayer'
Knave: 'Parallellogram'
King: 'Globes'
Clubs:
Ace: 'Dyaling Globe'
5: 'Thermometre'
6: 'Barometre'
7: 'Noctournal'
10: 'Sector & Scales'
Knave: 'Painter Pavior Turner Smith'
Queen: 'Drawing Table'
King: Title-card
Engraving, hand-coloured suit-marks
- Production date
- 1700
- Dimensions
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Height: 91 millimetres
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Width: 57 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1896,0501.925 (Schreiber E.67) for a complete pack, with different king of clubs, and 1982,U.4662 for a title wrapper.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,0306.25-55
